16/11 - SUMMATIVE APPROACH

Hi! In this class, we continue with the concept of assessment. As we have already seen, assessment is more than testing, and it means different things in different contexts, carried out for different purposes. Futhermore, summative evaluation is defined by OECD as "a study conducted at the end of an intervention (or a phase of that intervention) to determine the extent to which anticipated outcomes were produced. Summative evaluation is intended to provide information about the worth of the program."

Some teachers use a variety of ways to assess learning, such as tick sheets to summarize a child’s achievements at a point in schooling and portfolios, which are a useful way of keeping evidence of learning. Also, a portfolio review can be given to families to provide them with information. Additionally, we discussed a term that I did not know how to differentiate, which is evaluation and qualification. While evaluation provides evidence of the student's learning, qualification is a way of showing and/or communicating the achievements obtained in the evaluation process.

Finally, my colleague Andrea and I did an evaluation of a listening activity for which we created a form to assess if they had understood the listening. Thanks to this activity, the concept became clearer to me, along with the objectives of the evaluation.